"If the cities erupt again, we will find no
safe place on either side of the barricades."

—James W. Compton, Chicago , Urban League
director

WE ASKED
FOR IT AND HERE THEY ARE

"Give
me your tired, your poor,

Your
huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The
wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send
these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift
my lamp beside the golden door!"

The New Majority

The triumph of idiocy over commonsense

The barricades are seen only fleetingly by
most middle-class Americans as they rush by in their cars or commuter
trains—doors locked, windows closed, moving fast. But out there is a different
world, a place of pock-marked streets, gutted tenements and broken hopes.
Affluent people know little and care less about this dark and hopeless world.
Except when it erupt explosively onto Page One or the 7 o'clock news! Behind
its crumbling walls lives what is to become the ruling majority who are more
intractable, more socially alien and more hostile than almost anyone has
imagined. They are the un-reachables: the American underclass, the new majority.

The term itself is shocking to many
striving, mobile Americans. Long used in class-ridden Europe, then applied to
the U.S. by Swedish Economist Gunnar Myrdal and other intellectuals in the
1960s, it has become a rather common description of people who are seen to be
stuck more or less permanently at the bottom, removed from the “American dream.”
Though a few members come from all races and live in many places, the underclass
is made up mostly of impoverished urban blacks who suffer from a lack of
intelligence, laziness and a heritage of slavery and discrimination that they
use as their excuse to remain inert and miserable.. The universe of the
underclass is often a junk heap of rotting housing, broken furniture, crummy
food, alcohol and drugs. The underclass has been doubly left behind: by the
well-to-do majority and by the many blacks and Hispanics who have struggled up
to the middle class, or who remain poor but can see a better day for themselves
or their children. Its members are victims and victimizers in the culture of the
street hustle, the vicious gangs, quick fixes, the rip-off and, not least,
violent crime.

The bleak environment of the hood nurtures
values that are at radical odds with those of the shrinking white majority whose
ancestors built this remarkable country. The underclass minority produces no
contribution to the betterment of civilization. They are responsible for the
highly disproportionate number of the nation's juvenile delinquents, school
dropouts, drug addicts, welfare mothers, most of the adult crime, family
disruption, urban decay. Monsignor Geno Baroni, an assistant secretary of
Housing and Urban Development said: "The underclass presents our most dangerous
crisis, more dangerous than the Depression of 1929, and far more complex."

As long as these people are permitted to
participate in the election of our leaders they will vote for increasing
benefits which none of them will ever pay for. Once they breed themselves into
the dominant voting block and are organized, as Obama has shown, they will form
a tyranny of the majority constituting the greatest threat ever to American
democracy. With the emergence of Evo Morales, Hugo Chavez and Obama, all elected
by disenfranchised majorities, the populist leftist trend is becoming dominant.
By promising the mob “more” of the fruits of the labors of the productive
citizens- the “populist” tyrant increases his power and appeal- never thinking
or caring that he is alienating the source of his ability to pander and curry
favor with the great un-washed. With America facing shrinking tax revenues the
Feds are running the treasury presses overtime- only serving to dilute further
the value of our money. Obama will build more presses and print even more- he
has to, he will!

Rampaging members of the underclass carried
out much of the orgy of looting and burning that swept New York's ghettos during
the blackout. (In all, 55% of the arrested looters were unemployed and 64% had
been previously arrested for other offenses.) They are responsible for most of
the crime that has spread like an epidemic through the nation. Many members of
this subculture are Gang members, looters, arsonists and violent criminals. The
underclass is so totally disaffected from the system that even those who would
not themselves steal or burn or mug, join in the melee, sometimes even cheering
them on. Watts and the aftermath of Katrina are two well publicized examples.
“The underclass, said Vernon Jordan, former executive director of the National
Urban League, "in a crisis feels no compulsion to abide by the rules of the game
because they find that the normal rules do not apply to them."

Their disaffection and alienation is doubly
distressing because, up until a few months before recent election, the nation
was in a period of slow but steady economic growth, an advance that had created
millions of new jobs only to see them lost to the disastrous and anti-American
acts of the liberals in our media and Government, helped, in no small way, by
the “peoples choice,” obama, in coercing our financial institutions to make what
they knew were disastrous loans which have proved to have even more disastrous
consequences. For a more descriptive article on the financial debacle, read “Who
Screwed You” at
www.libs-sitnk.us

Five million toxic loans resulting in
foreclosures wiped out at least half the value of all American’s homes and
savings…..No fewer than 7 percent of all Americans are now out of work. The
underclass remains a nucleus of psychological and material destitution despite
years of vacuous civil rights “gains” and more years of wasteful and non-
productive anti-poverty programs.

Tens of billions of dollars are spent every
year by the Federal Government in many states and cities to eliminate drastic
poverty and they have resulted in almost no measurable benefits. How many times
is it necessary to point out that while one can lead the proverbial horse to the
water one cannot force him to drink? The American underclass has thousands of
years of history in doing as little as possible to survive and they, as a group,
show little capability or interest to learn despite the many ridiculous
so-called re-education programs.

Special hiring drives, private job-training
programs, university scholarships and affirmative-action programs are aimed at
aiding the un-motivated poor. Yet by most of society's measures, job prospects,
housing, education, physical security, the underclass is hardly better off, and
in some cases worse off, than before the absurd and costly ‘Wars on
Poverty.”-another way of white ( and black) pols trying to ingratiate themselves
with, and buy the votes of, the underclass while using the white taxpayer’s
money to do so.

This “war,” of course, has been lost. Due
to “manipulated” statistics, The proportion of the nation “officially” listed as
living in poverty has dropped since 1959 from 22% to 12%. Actual figures
indicate that the reverse is true and that the underclass of under achievers and
those receiving local, state or federal aid has increased tremendously. Counting
the 20 million or so Mexicans and other criminal Latinos the number is likely in
the 30% range. No one really knows.

One of America's greatest failures has been
the so-called the rise of many blacks to the middle class. That they did this
using affirmative action government handouts and sustain their economic status
on the backs of the white taxpayers is not to be discussed.

Today, it is guessed that 44% of black
families earn less than $30,000 a year. Fifty percent of blacks fail to graduate
from high school and less than 5% go on graduate college. Though some so-called
“discrimination” persists, more and more non-whites are seen in at least the
“junior management ranks of banks” and other businesses where they helped to
precipitate our latest financial debacle. Of course, blacks are overly
represented in the military and other government agencies, where, once in
management positions, they tend to hire other minorities, thus gradually
diminishing the capabilities of the agencies.

New opportunities have splintered the
non-white population. The very few brightest and most ambitious have rapidly
risen, leaving the underclass farther and farther behind—and more and more
angry. They want what they see as their due, more entitlements, more of the
white taxpayer’s money and many liberal self- serving politicians are willing to
give it to them…..

According to the libs, the number of blacks
earning more than $30,000 ( since they don’t submit taxes and have no reportable
jobs, no one knows how these figures are obtained) is expanding and the number
earning $50,000 to $100,000 is also growing. Almost a third of all black
families are still below the poverty line, defined (by God knows who) as $30,000
for an urban family of four (only 5.9% of white families are below the line).
Harvard Sociologist David Riesman said: "The awareness that many blacks have
been successful means that the underclass is more resentful and more defiant
because its alibi isn't there." Now with the black Messiah, they have no excuse
at all………

Others echo those sentiments in gutsier
language. Said Naomi Chambers, a black Detroit social worker- "Now that some
black people have cars, dresses and shoes, there is jealousy. Jealousy can make
me hate you and take what you have." Indeed, the thousands of blacks who looted
during the New York blackout, Watts and Katrina were totally nondiscriminatory,
emptying out stores owned by blacks and whites alike. There is a strong feeling
among social experts and politicians, both black and white, that much the same
rampage could have struck any U.S. city in similar circumstances—and that next
time it will be worse. Imagine when Obama is assassinated, Luis Farrakhan’s
“black messiah,” the streets will run red with white blood! Kind of boggles the
mind doesn’t it? Since the Irish and Vegas odds makers are betting on Obama’s
assassination- better keep your power dry!

Concerned officials from the White House to
the humblest city hall are grappling with questions about the underclass. How
big is it? Who is in it? What motivates its members? Most importantly, how can
this minority within a minority be reduced? To be frank and accurate, everyone
who voted for Obama along with the so called underclass, can be included in the
gang who voted to destroy America- not realizing that the days of easy money are
coming to end and likely faster than otherwise. Millions of white American’s are
moving themselves and their money offshore just as did American industry,
beginning several years ago, out of the reach and hands of the fuzzy minded libs
who would only use it to further their socialist agenda. The country today is
separated by hatreds and differences far greater than existed even during the
American Civil war.

For a very few of the deprived, poverty is
a transitory condition that can be overcome by education, ambition or the sheer
refusal to stay down. A few of the unemployed are only temporarily out of jobs;
more than 86% have been unemployed for less than 26 weeks. The underclass, by
contrast, is made up of people who lack the schooling, skills and discipline to
advance, and who have succumbed to helplessness, a feeling of being beaten. They
are truly the unemployables- Les Miserables. Many members of the underclass come
from the ranks of the millions who are listed as unemployable and "discouraged"
because they have no skills and are unable to find even menial work- not that
they are even looking or have looked in years……As long as the libs continue to
trade basic sustenance for votes- nothing in this equation is likely to
change…..

To that number can be added the entrenched
black and Latino welfare mothers, dropping more squalling kids with gay abandon
every year….. At least 10 million of these Obama voters have been identified.
Then there are their many children, millions of ignorant kids, growing up
without a heritage of working skills or of employed society's values. In
addition, many of the chronically unemployed in the 18-to-25 age group have
had—and will have—a desperate time landing and keeping regular jobs. Allowing
for the overlaps in those groups, the underclass and the Obama voters must
number at least 30 million to 40 million-perhaps even more. Socialism is
definitely here and has been for some time…..

Though this subculture is predominantly
black, many Hispanics and more than a few poor whites belong to the socialist
underclass. Examples are the Chicanos of the Los Angeles slums, the Puerto
Ricans of Spanish Harlem. 55% of the nation's blacks, v. 49% of the
Spanish-speaking minorities still live in the mostly depressed areas of central
cities.

The black concentration in the cities seems
fated only to increase because the birth rate among blacks is 51% higher than
among whites and that’s where the welfare offices are. There are other reasons
for continuing concentration: lingering discrimination on the part of the soon
to be white minority. The white taxpayers have nothing in common with the
underclass. They can’t speak in “Ebonics and have no interests in common.
Sitting on front steps in the hood, carjacking and flogging drugs are not areas
of interest to white taxpayers. This stems from a lack of a cultural motivation,
crippling absence of education, training and opportunity among the black and
Latino minority who are actually more motivated to receive Government handouts
than the idea of becoming educated and earning a living.

It is the non-existence of family
structure, the presence of competing jungle and gang street values, and the lack
of hope amidst the soon to vanish white affluence, that make the American
underclass unique among the world's poor. TIME’s past Atlanta Bureau Chief
Rudolph Rauch, a liberal socialist, who had been stationed in Latin America
wrote; "Almost anyone who has lived in or near the crowded barrios of South
America knows that looting on the scale that occurred in New York could almost
never happen there- and not because the army would be standing by to shoot
looters. Family structure has not yet broken down in South America, nor has the
idea of a neighborhood. A child there usually feels that he lives in both.. By
contrast, in a U.S. urban ghetto, he knows that he belongs to neither."

TIME Chicago Correspondent Robert
Wurmstedt, once a liberal Peace Corps volunteer, reported: "The poverty in the
black and Puerto Rican neighborhoods on the West Side of Chicago is worse than
any poverty I saw in West Africa. The people in Africa, in the tribal
communities, are guided by traditional values. They do not live in constant fear
of violence, vermin and fire. You don't find the same sense of desperation and
hopelessness you find in the American ghetto." The underclass is made up of
people who lack the schooling, skills and discipline to advance, and who have
succumbed to helplessness—a feeling of being beaten. Of course, this was before
the “Hutises and Tutises” started chopping each other up!

Long-term unemployment is a factor. Many
members of the underclass come from the ranks of the 20 + million who are listed
as "discouraged" because they have given up even looking for jobs and most are
unqualified for any of the increasingly technical work available. To that number
can be added the entrenched welfare mothers. Then there are their many children,
a few million kids growing up without working skills or social values. Many of
the chronically unemployed in the 18-to-25 age group have had—and will have—a
desperate time landing and keeping their first regular jobs- they are a portion
of the 40 million who are receiving welfare. Allowing for the overlaps in those
groups, the underclass must number at least 40 million to 48 million Americans-
counting the 20 million illegal’s and other Latinos, even 50 million.

Hopelessness is at home in a fetid ghetto
flat, where children make morbid sport of chasing cockroaches or dodging rats.
There may never be hot water for bathing or a working bathtub to put it in—or
any other functioning plumbing. Under these conditions, afflictions such as lead
poisoning (from eating flaking paint) and severe influenza are common. Siblings
often sleep together in the same bed, separated by a thin wall or a blanket from
parents (though frequently there is no man around). Streets are unsafe to walk
at night—and, often, so are the buildings. Nobody dies of starvation but many
are malnourished on a diet of hot dogs, Twinkies, Fritos, soda pop and, in rare
cases, whatever can be fished out of the garbage can. Alcoholism abounds; crack,
meth and heroin are favorite routes of revenue and escape. Another road to
fantasy is the TV set. On it dance the images of the good life in middle-class
America, visions that inspire envy and frustration.

Strutting pimps, pushers and gang members
are often the local heroes and the successful role models for the kids.
Schooling is frequently a sick joke: teachers conduct holding operations in the
classroom, while gang leaders instruct. Inordinate numbers of the black young
drop out of school before graduation, landing on street corners unskilled,
undisciplined and barely literate. Those who finish high school are not much
better off. Says Richard McNish, director of a manpower training program in Los
Angeles' Watts neighborhood: "Kids aren't required to produce to get a diploma.
Nothing is required except to be cool and not try to kill the teacher. They
don't know how to read and write."

Portraits from a gallery of despair: In
Brooklyn's grimy Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto, a welfare mother surveys her
$195-a-month tenement apartment, an unheated, vermin-ridden urban swamp. The
bathroom ceiling and sink drip water on the cracked linoleum floor. There are no
lights, no locks on the doors. Disheveled and 35, the woman has been on welfare
ever since her five-year-old son was born. She joined in the looting during
July's traumatic blackout, and calls the episode "convenient. We saw our chance
and we took it." Now she also worries: "We don't have any place to shop any
more." ( Duh, really?)

In Boston, Ana C., a Hispanic and a mother
of seven, speaks no English and has no marketable skills. She draws $294 monthly
from welfare. To this she adds the profits from selling heroin at $30 a "spoon"
(dose). Ana disapproves of the drug, realizes that it is a major cause of street
crime. Yet she rationalizes: "I didn't know how to put food on my table, buy
clothes for the children and still pay my $95 rent and the gas bills."

In Watts, a wine-sipping ex-con in his 30s
keeps vigil on his doorstep, staring at a cluster of shabby apartments across
the street. "I've been looking for a job since I got out of the penitentiary "
he says in a monotone. "I tried to get a job in the CETA, a Federal
Comprehensive Employment and Training program. They told me that if I don't have
a telephone I can't get hired." He points at a chain-link fence around the
neighboring apartments. "They put up those fences to show the people what
they're getting ready for. They have two fences around the penitentiary."

In Harlem, Donald Williams, 29, an
ex-junkie, scuffs the streets of New York City as a panhandler. A former student
at North Carolina Central University, he says that he was thrown out because he
took part in a student demonstration. Williams' lament: "My values are gone.
You're looking at a weird dude, a dude on the borderline of insanity. Every day,
it doesn't seem to get better—only worse."

In Chicago, hundreds of unemployed young
blacks mill on the street where Albirtha Young, 39, lives with her completely
welfare-supported family—twelve people in all. "I didn't want to pick cotton all
my life," she says, explaining her move to the city's West Side from Mississippi
nine years ago. She brought two children North, now has four more—along with two
left to her care by an aunt, plus two younger brothers and a sister to tend. The
extended family lives in a two-story frame house bracketed by vacant lots,
gutted houses and apartment buildings.

Albirtha has not held a job since 1998. One
reason: her wage would be less than her $420.60 monthly welfare payment plus the
$298.80 she receives in Social Security survivors' benefits—and she would have
to pay the cost of a baby sitter besides. Says she: "It's no easy job just
sitting here from one year to the next doing nothing." She collects aid to
dependant families, food stamps, subsisted housing, free medical clinics and
receives funds fro several other sources. The kids sell drugs and the oldest has
been arrested for car jacking white women, served time and today runs a string
of teenage prostitutes. Albirtha is completely stung out on crack and the kids
use meth- none of them can hold a coherent conversation and have highly
shortened attention spans- none of them attend school. Where’s the truant
officer, you ask? You’ve got to be kidding…..

From the ghetto comes a hesitant and mostly
mute cry for jobs. The unemployment rate among blacks is 53.2%, v. 6.1% among
whites. The rate for black teenagers is 65%, v. 14.3% for whites. A generation
of young people is moving into its 20s—the family-forming years—without knowing
how to work, and having none of the skills required for employment in the
information age. Most have no really pressing need to work. As long as there’s
money for food and drugs and Uncle Sam keeps ringing the dinner bell, why work?

To those who have had menial jobs, the
current recession is a severe blow. Non-whites are laid off at nearly twice the
rate of whites (the unemployment rate for urban uneducated blacks grew from
30.4% in 1974 to 55.7% in 1975). Since, blacks are called back to work more
slowly, some who had begun to struggle out of the underclass were abruptly
thrown back. The underclass has been hurt by the flight of manufacturing firms -
many requiring only semiskilled or even unskilled labor. Since 1969 Chicago has
lost 512,000 jobs, while its suburbs have gained 220,000; in the same period,
New York City has lost 850,000 jobs. From 1970 to 1975, 248 manufacturing plants
left Detroit, including branches of the 26 largest local companies. Urban
centers continue to try to tax companies and productive people in order to,
what’s the phrase, “share the wealth.” As the taxing authorities begin feeling
the pinch their rapacious greed and desire to sacrifice the taxpayer’s money to
promote their bloated bureaucracies and maintain themselves in power, more and
more companies and individuals have voted with their feet and moved to escape
the increasing burden.

"Poor blacks and other inhabitants of the
“hood” generally don't have mobility," says Roger Fox, an executive of the
Chicago Urban League. "They just can't pick up and move on to where there are
jobs." Among the many reasons: high rents in the suburbs (even compared with the
extortionate sums charged by many slumlords), lack of cars and mass transit, and
the common sense resistance of many communities to low-income housing and having
criminals and drug using scum moving into their neighborhoods. Margie Figueroa,
21, typifies the problem. She had to commute two hours each way, on three buses
and a train, from Chicago's Humboldt Park barrio to her job as a maid at the
Hyatt Regency Hotel near O'Hare International Airport. The effort was too much;
she quit, and remains unemployed. On welfare, food stamps and extended
benefits……….all paid for by the American taxpayer- a increasingly rare and soon
to be extinct species of jackass……..

By default, the underclass economy is a 99%
welfare supported economy. Nonwhites received 87% of the $30.4 billion in
federal and state welfare payments last year. Blacks make up no less than 64.3%
of enrollees in the $20.3 billion Aid to Families with Dependent Children
program (AFDC)—21.5 million welfare mothers. Welfare dependency means that for
many members of the underclass, the concepts of income and jobs are barely
related, if at all. Says Michael Lemmons, 17, who is earning $2.50 an hour this
summer as a janitor's assistant in a Watts federal manpower program: "If you
keep giving people stuff, that's why they loot when the lights go out. Working
is out of their minds. They think everything must be taken."

For many women in the underclass, welfare
has turned illegitimate pregnancy into a virtual career. Says Barbara Wright, a
welfare mother of ten in Brooklyn: Lotsa us in d’ ghetto believe dat d’ way to
get sumptin, clos and smack,n’such, be by getten mo kids n gett’n mo welfare."
One Harlem hustler makes the all-too-typical rationalization: "Everybody steals.
Politicians steal. What's the use to bust my ass from 9 to 5 to get $100 a
week?" Kind of proves the old adage that “s- - t runs down hill doesn’t it?

Of course, although millions do feel that
way, in Harlem, a few youths besieged city manpower offices to sign on as
cleaners-up (at $30 a day) plus benefits. After last month's looting episode, in
Chicago, nearly 20 applicants, most of them black teenagers, lined up to apply
for some 300 jobs at a new South Side supermarket.

More minimum wage jobs, of course, are not
the solution for American welfare underclass. Not only economically, but also
psychologically and culturally these people are not disposed or equipped either
culturally, intellectually or academically to hold any kind of job outside of
pushing a broom. In the world's most achievement-oriented society, work is more
than a source of income. It is also a source of status and self-esteem, a point
of identification with the system, and a second social environment, which aids
in diffusing the accumulated tensions of day-to-day life.

Says Stanford University Historian Clay
Carson, a half white black: "Permanency of jobs, stability in an economic
situation, is important. Even if someone is only a janitor, his job still means
stability." On the basis of studies, he adds: "Typically, those who can get
established with a job in an urban environment can pass this stability on to
their kids. Those who can't, the vast majority, are likely to pass on more than
just poverty. They also transmit poor educational opportunities and a sense of
hopelessness." This is the legacy of the last 50 years of liberalism- giving
away the minimum means of substance to pander for votes and curry political
favor has resulted in generations of useless millions who neither want to nor
are capable of performing any kind of even menial work. Thank the Democratic
Party for the destruction of America.

In attacking the basic problem of job
creation, the first sound step is to recognize that the Government cannot and
should not try to do it all. Given the public's dismay with inflation and high
taxes, there is nothing close to the political consensus that would be needed to
support the raucous liberal cries for massive job programs or a "Marshall Plan
for the cities." Despite some minimal and successes, Lyndon Johnson's War on
Poverty is too well remembered as one in which benefits often trickled up to the
so-called “poverticians”—the programmers, social workers and professional
“Blacks”-people like Obama, ACORN and other suppliers to the needy. Any massive
program to stimulate the whole economy, in an attempt to bring down unemployment
rapidly, would only give a rocket boost to inflation. The primary victim would
be the underclass. Watch the Obama plan to create 2.5 million new jobs among the
underclass carefully and if you possibly can, take your money out of dollars and
escape the country while you still can.

There is no all-embracing solution, at any
price, for the complex malaise of the millions in the underclass and welfare
recipients. It would be more realistic—and much less inflationary—to press for a
mix of endeavors, in which the Government would reorder some social spending and
new efforts would be made by private business and by members of the underclass
themselves.

A most crying long-range but impossible
need is to improve public education. As the poorest of the poor have massively
inundated inner-city (day time prisons) schools, it has been easier for
educators to concede the trappings of success—passing meaningless grades,
graduating diplomas—than to teach the skills necessary for living and working.
Ghetto school officials need to enforce their lax truancy rules, putting
pressure on the parents ( if they could find them) to insist that their
children attend, and need to concentrate rigorously on the reading, writing and
math skills required to get ahead in an advanced industrial society. Of course,
what they don’t talk about is that the kids stoned on meth and crack and having
inherited minimal intellectual capability, can’t learn anything in any case.
That’s why it’s impossible.

Stopping the Dropout Exodus

One effective program is New York City's
Auxiliary Services for High Schools. Started in 1969 by Educator Seymour
Weissman, it is aimed at hard-core dropouts, problem students and those
suspended from the school system, who become disillusioned out on the streets
and volunteer to return to school. These are only those too weak or dumb to join
effective gangs or succeed in other methods of street crime.

Most are age 12 to 21. Says Weissman: "The
traditional high school used to have gym, shop, sports teams, music, drivers ed
and home economics . Today, none of these programs exist and haven’t for years.
There’s no money for one thing and there’s no one who could or want to even try
to teach these subjects to inner city ghetto kids. Geography and history are no
longer taught. Home rooms don’t have world maps and, in most cases, the students
don’t speak or read English and none of the texts are written in Ebonics or
Spanish- not yet!

For these kids, it is more important to
learn how to stay out of jail or prison and remain on the street where the money
is than it is to waste their time learning the basics of language math and
reading. In a very few urban schools the students are not promoted unless they
are qualified. Discipline is strict, work is closely supervised, but at the same
time an important goal is to instill self-reliant attitudes. Of course most of
the kids who started out at these schools were thrown out for misbehavior,
leaving only the small minority capable of and motivated to learn.

Says Julian Washington, a program's
assistant coordinator at one of these schools: "A lot of the youngsters,
especially blacks, have a deserved and negative self-image. We try to make some
of them believe in self-esteem and in getting a new and positive image of
themselves." Some 14,000 students participate in the program each year, and
about 2,000 pass the New York State high school equivalency test; better than
20% of these former dropouts go on to college but few actually graduate. Though
small in national terms, the program could possibly be successfully expanded and
imitated elsewhere.

The underclass would also be better served
by tougher law enforcement in the ghettos and swift and sure justice for
offenders. Some of the reasons: 1) to suppress the near anarchic violence on
many ghetto streets that terrorizes the underclass and leads some to believe
that they too can be a law unto themselves; 2) to give the law-abiding poor a
better chance in their increasingly hostile environment; 3) to motivate
businessmen to return to the inner city.

Local governments also have to work harder
to recruit minority members for their police forces so that the cops are not
viewed as occupying armies but as servants of the vast majority of law-abiding
citizens in the underclass. None of these worthy goals are remotely plausible or
possible. No one in their right mind is going to set up a new business in any
black ghetto and none of the cops live in them and few have any interest in even
entering them. Force is often required in these areas and violence is the norm.
After the good citizen with the video camera made Rodney King (or his lawyer)
rich and the white cops wound up in prison for doing their jobs, you can imagine
that no white cop wants anything to do with law enforcement in black areas.

The cost—for more police, judges and
jails—will be unbelievably high and of course, like improving the schools,
impossible. Few of the police who might be assigned to these areas have
experience in dirty and dangerous ghettos and none would remain long enough to
gain any understanding or be effective- except to bash and shoot the huge
numbers of criminals and dangerous gang members who rule these areas. A serious
attack on ghetto crime could drive a wedge between the very few of the poor who
are struggling to get ahead and the vast majority who are preying upon them and
society in general. To be fair- it would take all out martial law in most of
these gang ruled areas to have any effect. The army would have to search every
apartment, confiscating weapons and shooting or arresting all the gang members
of which there are thousands. Permanent garrisons in every neighborhood would be
needed and it would take years to show any meaningful effect. Let’s face it-
this isn’t going to happen any time soon- Obama or not!

There is also a need to tear down, or at
least lower, the many barriers to employment that confront the unskilled, the
unlettered and the immobile. One obvious bar is the overly strict and
exclusionary union apprenticeship rules. They should be relaxed-despite the
howls certain to come from trade unionists. Of course, that is highly
unrealistic since each year, with technological advances, the mostly white and
productive segments of society distance itself from the unskilled and the
likelihood of jobs for the ignorant and intellectually disadvantaged only
further diminishes. Even garbage trucks today only need one driver and robots
are increasingly performing many of the menial tasks that used to provide at
least some work for the useless scum inhabiting American’s rotten inner cities.
What we have here is pure Pogoisim- “ I have seen the enemy and he is me.”

A still more controversial barrier to
employment is the minimum-wage law. Now something like $6.55 an hour, the
minimum will probably be raised by Congress to $10.00 under Obama. Of course,
the thin talents of most members of the underclass—particularly the unskilled
young are not worth that much off the street. Employers have to hire someone who
shows more evident promise of further promotion—or not hire at all.

The minimum wage, says Sociologist Riesman,
is the product of "an alliance of the better situated labor unions with the
liberals against the deprived and the elderly, whom people would otherwise
employ for household or for city work that now doesn't get done." Adds Stanford
University Labor Economist Thomas Sowell, a black realist and anti-obama
conservative: "Talk about people being unemployable is just so much rubbish.
Everybody is unemployable at one wage rate, and everybody is employable at
another." Perhaps, not quite everybody. In a free economy, there will always be
people who lack the skills ,discipline or motivation to work.

There is always some work that needs doing-
cleaning up parks, repairing abandoned buildings, taking part in the planned
Obama public work programs. Of course, this is all patently silly. What Sowell
failed to grasp or purposely overlooked, is that technology marches on and none
of the many millions of the underclass who will soon, if not already, be the
majority class, are suited for any kind of intellectual work and the dearth of
physical jobs is rapidly disappearing. If nobama does try to hire 2.5 million of
these wretches and put them to work in public infrastructure repair and
re-building programs like roads and bridges, he will soon find that most of them
are so unskilled, ignorant and unmotivated that the foreman will be unable to
get anything accomplished at all. These jobs demand workers who can handle heavy
equipment, follow blueprints and show up on time- none of the millions he wants
to employ can do any of these things…… Imagine some wog with a gold grill,
dreadlocks and 50 lbs of shiny chains pushing a wheelbarrow and you’ll get the
idea…….. J not gona happen!

Government Jobs Looking Better

The Federal Job Machine

Congress has been considering a proposal to
reduce the minimum wage for all teen-agers to 75% of the adult minimum, but that
might just inspire employers to hire well-schooled middle-class youth at the
expense of older workers. ( y’think?) A better compromise, suggested by Harvard
Economist Martin Feldstein, (another Obama supporter)
would be for the Government to subsidize minimum-wage payments to the youthful
unemployed. Directed specifically at the underclass, the program would allow
businessmen to pay a fraction of the cost for jobs that they might otherwise
refuse to fill. Another stupid Government investment would be to shift federal
funds to more and better mass transit, which, beyond all its supposed benefit to
the environment, would give the underclass access to all some new job
opportunities in the suburbs. Just what the people living in the suburbs moved
there to get away from- marauding gangs of ghetto youth able to cheaply and
conveniently prey on distant suburbs. See how the laws of unintended
consequences work? J

By vastly increasing the federal budget,
the Government has today, after 50 years, over 700 new agencies employing over
18 million happy little democratic vampires sucking the life blood of honest
profit making taxpayers. In 1998, for every tax dollar sent to Washington from
the Midwestern and southern states, $260 returned; the Northeastern states, the
so called blue and bankrupt states with the heaviest concentration of urban
blacks and Latinos got back $1860. The South collected $1.14 and the rest
averaged about $1.20.

President Carter, arguably the worst
president in America’s history (until now) tried to strike at the root of one
debilitating problem by proposing his failed "pro-family, pro-work" welfare
reform bill, which aimed to get people off the dole and encourage them to work
by offering cash grants to the so-called working poor, it encouraged underclass
male (semen donors) fathers to stay in the home instead of leaving so that their
families can collect more welfare. The plan offered yet even more tax money for
those who found jobs in the private sector instead of public service. For those
who cannot find anything, it stupidly proposed to create a phony job program of
1.4 million positions in training programs and service jobs such as assisting
teachers, providing child care, controlling rats and escorting the aged in
high-crime areas. I particularly like the rat controllers- what a job……chasing
intelligent rodents through the sewers- pitting the minds of the ghetto
gang-bangers against those of clever overgrown mice.

In all, the tax incentives and jobs
provisions would have cost $13.2 billion in Carters day and over $700 billion if
tried today. They would raise the Federal Government's overall entitlement and
welfare bill (now including cash payments, food stamps, universal health care,
etc.) from $28.9 billion as it was then to at least $2 to 3 trillion and maybe
more. To the progressive super libs, the investment seems well worth the price-
funny thing is that they are never the ones who have to pay. Guys like Noam
Chomsky and Richard Reich along with Pelosi, Ried and Obama are well insulated.

The Federal Government this year will also
spend about $43 billion on a bewildering variety of employment and training
programs that are designed tol benefit an estimated 25 million people.
Washington finances, among other things, 7,725,000 public service jobs in state
and local governments, public works construction in depressed areas, and Job
Corps residential training centers. Some programs are merely cosmetic; for
example, the Administration's summer-job projects for 1.8 million kids are
designed mainly to pay the little vermin to keep them from flogging crack and
mugging little old ladies during vacation. To see a list of the federal agencies
that have been created by the Liberals, visit
www.libs-stink.us. I guarantee that you won’t believe it and will likely
become incensed when you see the pages listing these bloody agencies and
programs- each with fully staffed offices many in every city- all being paid for
with little green checks that come from your pocket. 20 percent of all employed
Americans today receive their monthly income entirely from state local or
federal sources. That means that out of a gainfully employed work force of 160
odd million, about 32 million are being supported entirely by the remainder.
Compare this to the 1.4 million government employees in 1950.

With costs per participant that range from
$2000 to $5,000, (all taxpayers money) the government training programs have
been widely and correctly criticized as boondoggles. The Congressional Budget
Office did conclude that a few graduates boosted their annual incomes by 5% to
15%. Most of the programs are administered without close federal supervision by
1446 local governments and Washington knows little about their effectiveness.
Said Sar Levitan, director of George Washington University's Center for Social
Policy Studies: "You end up throwing money away without anyone really knowing
what happening." At their best, the federal programs have room for only a
fraction of the underclass, and most are designed for fairly experienced workers
or the motivated poor. (a class that, so far, has been found to be mostly
nonexistent)

Some training programs might work better if
private business had a hand in designing and managing them. Perhaps businessmen,
who as a class are effective at solving problems and getting things done, (
unlike any Government employee or agency) could bid on projects to raze and
rebuild sections of the underclass ghettos, providing shops, industries and
services on a viable model and ultimately a profit making basis. Of course,
where to move these bums when you tear down their hovels has yet to be
considered- good luck!

Business could also take over much of the
job training now carried out in government centers under federal programs and
probably do it better and cheaper and maybe even profitably.( gee, y’think?)
Tax incentives, for example, could be designed to reward employers who hire the
long-term unemployed and show results in upgrading their skills. Certainly,
government-supported jobs of any kind are only a first, temporary step in
lifting the underclass; the real solution is for the wretched rascals to get
out of bed, go to school, pay attention, learn ( among other things) to speak
English, stop raping, pillaging, robbing and drugging and then go out and find
a job. How utterly stupid to say something like this. None of them are at all
interested or capable of studying and finding a job and by the time any of them
actually learned anything the requirements of industry would have advanced again
out of their reach. Look, it’s hard enough for the relatively well educated to
keep up with many job requirements and continued learning programs. Imagine some
ignorant ghetto black gang banger learning how to use word perfect on a 1990
government supplied PC running office 95. it would take him years and then what?
He’d still be even more years behind………

To help prepare them for jobs, government
and private money have already come together in some discouraging projects. One
of them, financed in part by the Ford Foundation and in part by the welfare
payments of participants themselves, was called ‘Supported Work’, which failed
but was aimed at longtime welfare mothers, ex-drug addicts and ex-convicts in 13
cities. The program started in New York City in 1972, and spread to Atlanta and
Oakland, Calif.. Today now the program is long defunct having made zero
difference anywhere.

Another marginally more successful project
was called the Maverick Corp., which ran a tire-recapping operation in Hartford,
Conn. Maverick employed 350 ghetto dwellers, including 100 people age 17 to 20.
Typically, a worker was offered $2.50 an hour, and told that whoever shows up
punctually will get $2.67 instead. Anyone who is so much as one minute late
loses the bonus for the entire week.'" Morale was supposed to be high, and in
its last year 85 workers moved on to private jobs. Said Maverick President Dan
MacKinnon: "Of that group, 25% have lost their jobs. That doesn't make me feel
very good, but one thing I'm sure of is that 100% of them would not even have
got their foot in the door had they not built up a work record with Maverick."

More black leaders are beginning to make
the point that in spite of the continuing racism that is still a barrier to
opportunities; the underclass must help itself out of its morass. In his pulpit
style, Chicago's ace race baiter, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, head of the Operation
PUSH self-help group, says: "It is bad to be in the slum, but it is worse when
the slum is in you. The spiritual slum is the ultimate tragedy. The victimizer
is responsible for us being down, but the victim is responsible for us not
getting up." Jackson has called for neighborhood volunteers to replace police in
patrolling ghetto schools and street corners, has launched a drive for black
parents to monitor strictly their children's homework. I hated to break the news
to ol’e rev Jessie but he’s a little out of touch. Most of the kids don’t have
any parents and if they do they can’t read either and, homework, as we know it,
in the inner city schools doesn’t exist because the schools don’t let the little
delinquents take the text books home. Jessie did urge that voter registration
cards be handed to each high school graduate along with a diploma. Says he:
"Nobody will save us from us but us." He succeeded with the voter registration
with the assistance of the Black caucus in Congress and their white lib pals
passing the motor voter law but failed completely in doing anything to curb
crime in the inner cities.

Nothing has yet replaced individual
incentive in U.S. society and nothing ever will. But more than a century ago,
Nathaniel Hawthorne observed: "In this republican country, amid the fluctuating
waves of social life, somebody is always at the drowning point." Ever since
then, successive generations of aspiring Americans have lifted themselves well
above that despairing level.

The underclass will find this harder to do
given their heritage and damaged gene pool. Encouraging incentive in the
underclass, and overcoming the barriers of racism could well take forever. The
entire society, business, government and ordinary citizens will have to chip
away at the problems. The alternative to progress would be more desperation,
hostility, violence and disaffection within the underclass. That is something
even the world's wealthiest country is finding difficult if not impossible to
afford. Of course, now that the Liberals who, over the last 50 years, having
wormed their way into every level of the media, education and government, have
taken full control of the country with their fearless black leader, America is
no longer that wealthy country and, in fact, may pass into oblivion as the sole
world leader. We soon won’t have any money to support their silly guilt ridden
programs that persistently and unsuccessfully try to make a silk purse from the
proverbable sow’s ear.

The Bell Curve, a controversial,
best-selling 1994 book by Harvard psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein and
American Enterprise Institute political scientist Charles Murray, points out
that intelligence is a reliable predictor of many factors including financial
income, job performance, unwed pregnancy, and crime than parents' socioeconomic
status or education level.

The book argues that those with higher
intelligence, which the authors call the "cognitive elite", are becoming
gradually separated from the general population of those with average and
below-average intelligence and that this is a clear social trend. Much of the
controversy concerned Chapters 13 and 14, in which the authors wrote about the
enduring racial differences in intelligence and discuss the implications of
those differences. The authors were reported throughout the popular press as
arguing that these IQ differences are demonstrably genetic, and they did indeed
write in chapter 13 "It seems highly likely to us that both genes and the
environment have everything to do with racial differences." The success of those
blacks who have had white parents like Obama and many others seem to well prove
the argument.

Two Americas

America will always have a huge and growing
underclass. The whites cannot save them and, like a struggling life guard pulled
to his death by a drowning swimmer, the white society will eventually, if indeed
it has not already, perish. The only practical alternative is to split the
country. One side, the Blue states with all their beloved welfare recipients,
government programs, liberals, socialists, homosexuals, perverts, criminals,
gang bangers, social misfits, atheists, illegal aliens and fellow travelers, can
go its own way into oblivion and the other, the Red United States of America,
with Joe the Plumber, the conservatives and most of the educated and hard
working entrepreneurs and patriots, will live and prosper and stop forever
sending our money to the liberals in Washington. We will keep our guns and money
and let them keep “The Change.!”